Title : The Greatest Hits of the 80s
Label : Star Direct
Medium : CD
TTime(1): 62:18
TTime(2): 63:10
TTime(3): 63:54
TTime(4): 61:29
Notes : Song listing with copywrite info.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid : $12
Rank : 3 out of 5.
Track Listing(1)
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Title Artist(s)
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Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley
Manic Monday Bangles
C'est La Vie Robbie Nevil
Let's Go All the Way Sly Fox
Call Me Blondie
Is There Something I Should Know Duran Duran
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Starship
Careless Whisper George Michael
Geno Dexy's Midnight Runners
Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler
Green Door Shakin' Stevens
Kayleigh Marillion
Vienna Ultravox
Tell It To My Heart Taylor Dayne
Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House
The Final Countdown Europe
Track Listing(2)
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Title Artist(s)
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Walking On Sunshine Katrina and the Waves
Down Under Men at Work
Broken Wings Mr. Mister
Tonight I Celebrate My Love Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack
License to Kill Gladys Knight
If I Was Midge Urge
Our Lips Are Sealed Fun Boy Three
Girl You Know It's True Milli Vanilli
Living in A Box Living In a Box
Kids In America Kim Wilde
Too Shy Kajagoogoo
French Kissing in the USA Debbie Harry
Love Train Holly Johnson
Love Plus One Haircut 100
Making Your Mind Up Bucks Fizz
He Ain't My Heavy, He's My Brother The Hollies
Track Listing(3)
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Title Artist(s)
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The Power of Love Huey Lewis and the News
Running Up That Hill Kate Bush
Golden Brown The Stranglers
It Started With a Kiss Hot Chocolate
On Our Own Bobby Brown
Axel F Harold Faltermeyer
Ghost Town The Specials
She Makes My Day Robert Palmer
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Wham
System Addict Five Star
Sexy Eyes Dr. Hook
Pass the Dutchie Musical Youth
Intuition Linx
Going Back to My Roots Odyssey
Love Changes (Everything) Climie Fisher
Your Love Is King Sade
Track Listing(4)
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Title Artist(s)
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Give It Up K.C. and the Sunshine Band
Boxerbeat Jo Boxers
9 to 5 Sheena Easton
Crying Don McLean
Letter From America The Proclaimers
All the Love in the World Dionne Warwick
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love David Grant &Jackie Graham
19 Paul Hardcastle
You Take Me Up Thompson Twins
I Think We're Alone Now Tiffany
I Won't Let the Sun Go Down On Me Nik Kershaw
True Spandau Ballet
Sign Your Name Terence Trent D'arby
I Owe You Nothing Bros
Go Wild in the Country Bow Wow Wow
Crockett's Theme Jan Hammer
Comments:
This is a British Import 4 cd multiset, I ranked the set as a whole
since it's not available in any other way. It's one of those large double cd
holders that has cd's on both sides of the inner divider, which is a nice use
of space in a cd rack, opposed to two large cd holders. As a whole the set
isn't all that great, it's got a lot of soft songs (especially disc 4) and a
few songs that really just don't belong anywhere but the cutting room floor.
Maybe in the UK some of these songs were bigger, but "He Ain't My Heavy,
He's My Brother"? Come on, it took over 25 years to cross that Atlantic? I
don't think so. There's also some songs that sound very un-eighties, like
"Shakin' Stevens". I might have scored the set higher if Milli Vanilli
hadn't been on it as well, that kind of put it over the edge for me. The
first two discs in this set are pretty good, be prepared though to use the
skip button on a few tracks.The fourth cd is probably the worst, it has a lot
of overly soft songs, fluff like "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany and KC
and the Sunshine Band, whom were more of a seventies group. I also question
the inclusion of two not so great themes from movies, namely Bobby Brown's
"On Our Own" which isn't too bad really, the first movie soundtrack had
better songs, and Gladys Knight's "License to Kill", I just don't understand
why that's on here. If you can score it cheap, I'd grab it, but I certainly
wouldn't pay normal import prices for a set like this.